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	Best new technology from Mobile World Congress 2014   Smartphones, tablets, wearables on display at the show Read More   WEBCAST: SAP SAP IT Transformation Forum On March 6, join us in an exclusive live event featuring Nolan Bushnell, a technology pioneer, entrepreneur, and scientist who's often cited as the father of the video game industry. This event will feature topics on laying the foundations for mobile, Big Data, and cloud applications that business teams require to stay competitive. Learn more In this Issue Crowded U.S. airwaves desperately in search of breathing room Wireless timeline: 2013 (and a bit) in the world of spectrum Are iPhones the New International Currency? Netflix mocks Amazon's drone-delivery gimmick Like Amazon, Google starts eating its cloud cost tracking partners Gmail hit by message delivery delay White box drives record 2013 in Ethernet switching INSIDER How CIOs Unravel IT Systems After a Business Divestiture Microsoft's hardware chief to move aside, make room for Nokia's Elop Mt. Gox closes transaction to protect site, company says WEBCAST: Attachmate Workforce Mobilization for Improved Productivity A mobility research director from Aberdeen discusses reasons for extending legacy applications to mobile devices, and an integration strategist from Attachmate shows how easy it can be. Learn More Crowded U.S. airwaves desperately in search of breathing room Ahead of a major new spectrum auction scheduled for next year, America's four major wireless carriers are jockeying for position in the frequencies available to them, buying, selling and trading licenses to important parts of the nation's airwaves. Read More   Wireless timeline: 2013 (and a bit) in the world of spectrum Here's a brief look back at the very busy past year or so on the wireless spectrum scene in the United States: Read More   Are iPhones the New International Currency? When traveling to a foreign country, the exchange rate may not always be in your favor, but your iPhone is as good as gold -- and with the markup you can charge, it may be better than gold. Read More   Netflix mocks Amazon's drone-delivery gimmick Some ideas deserve mocking more than others, so into the batter's box steps Netflix with this delightful sendup of Amazon's silly drone-delivery plan/publicity stunt. Read More   Like Amazon, Google starts eating its cloud cost tracking partners This week Google released a new tool that makes it easier for customers to plan for how much it will cost to use the company's cloud resources, and optimize them to the users' needs. Read More   Gmail hit by message delivery delay Delays affected the delivery of messages to Gmail users Tuesday morning, days after key Google Web apps, including Docs and Drive, were hit by a bug lasting more than five hours. Read More   White box drives record 2013 in Ethernet switching Call it the March of the White Brigade. Sales of white box switches outpaced the Ethernet switch market as a whole in 2013, which was a record year for switch sales, according to Dell'Oro Group. Read More     INSIDER How CIOs Unravel IT Systems After a Business Divestiture With divestitures on the rise, CIOs at Hess, DuPont and other companies that are selling off pieces of the business must rip apart deeply integrated systems. Read More   Microsoft's hardware chief to move aside, make room for Nokia's Elop Julie Larson-Green, the Microsoft executive who co-led Windows development as recently as last summer and now heads the company's hardware efforts, will move to the group responsible for Office, where she once worked, according to an internal email obtained by the website GeekWire Read More   Mt. Gox closes transaction to protect site, company says Major Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox said Tuesday it had closed all transactions to protect its website and its users, following concerns about technical issues. Read More
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